[WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 AM,   wrote:
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>
> In a message dated 1/21/2009 9:17:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com writes:
>
> *  free—as in the sense of freedom, not necessarily in the sense of beer;
> *  reliable—in other words, accurate, coherent, and neutral; and
> * global—that  is, multilingual and written by a diverse, broad group of
> people.
>
> Britannica might be reliable, and it might become slightly  global, but
> it is not yet multilingual and it isn't  free.>>
>
>
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> What evidence do you have that an encyclopedia must be free?
>
> Society has existed for a few thousand years without a free  encyclopedia.

A statement trivially true. Society has also existed for a few
thousand years without copyright, period.

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gwern